Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to connectivity management in a heterogeneous network and provide a method, system and computer program product for resilient and reliable end-to-end connectivity in a heterogeneous network. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for resilient and reliable end-to-end connectivity in a heterogeneous network environment can be provided. The method can include creating an instance of an abstracted network resource model (NRM) for a heterogeneous network environment of different network resource nodes. The method further can include binding an application endpoint in the instance of the abstracted NRM with a connectivity endpoint for a first of the different network resource nodes. Finally, the method can include re-binding the application endpoint to a second of the different network resource nodes in response to detecting the outage.
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1. A method for resilient and reliable end-to-end connectivity in a heterogeneous network environment, the method comprising: abstracting first and second different communications networks of differing network types in the heterogeneous network environment as manageable resources; binding an application endpoint with a connectivity endpoint for the first communications network; detecting an outage in the first communications network; and, re-binding the application endpoint with a connectivity endpoint for the second communications network in response to detecting the outage.
This method provides continuous network connectivity in an environment using different network types. It works by first representing these different networks (like WiFi and cellular) as manageable resources. An application's connection point is initially linked to a connection point on the first network. If a problem is detected with the first network, the application's connection is automatically switched to a connection point on the second network. This switch ensures the application remains connected even if one network fails.
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August 22, 2017
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